In a world where social media is filled with all sorts of filters and strange images blurring reality, there’s something ...

Birds are rapidly vanishing from North America, with dramatic population losses in places that were once thought safe.

Some birds require careful observation to determine exactly what they are. The great egret, seen on a mud flat in Northbrook, is not one of them. Hunted to near-extinction for their feathers ...

The species are Little Grebe, Great Egret, Little Egret, Cattle Egret, Philippine Duck, Tufted Duck, White-browed Crake, Common Kingfisher, White-collared Kingfisher, White-throated Kingfisher and ...

Egrets have been spotted in a forest in Yuhu district, Xiangtan, Hunan province. [Photo by Pei Yulin/for chinadaily.com.cn] Bird photographer Pei Yulin recently helped reverse logging plans for a ...

The various Greek authors who wrote about the Persians tended to depict them as decadent and weak-willed, ruled by a series of self-styled great kings. Persian culture was often contrasted with ...

A new study based on two decades of data shows what happens in an ocean ecosystem without great white sharks. Great white sharks, like this one pictured in 2014, were once common residents in the ...

A thick crust of filth coating the ocean’s surface. It’s easy to find striking images of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). The problem is that these pictures of the GPGP are misleading ...